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Re:Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debu... by Terr_ on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:10PM (#41802328)
What is it that you believe they missed?

People have writing code in a certain way to provide logical "breadcrumbs" for a very long time, and doing it very deliberately. The fact that a tool was created that takes advantage of that isn't an "accident."

Compare to: "Correctly-spelled words as accidental hyperlinks to the dictionary definition."

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Re:Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debu... by djmips on Thursday October 10, 2024 @09:20PM (#41805216)
They missed that many programmers sometimes especially experienced ones like to write code that's very clever and packs a lot into one line of code to the detriment of debugging, often by others who may just be trying to reverse engineer what someone who left wrote.
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